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From Dada to Baroque, from Pointillism to Post-modernism...your favorite art movement may be found here...have fun!
15 quizzes and 160 trivia questions.
1.
Der Blaue Reiter The Blue Rider
  Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)    
Photo Match
 10 Qns
These works were produced by members of the German Expressionist movement known as Der Blaue Reiter in the years leading up to World War I. Match each painting with its creator.
Average, 10 Qns, looney_tunes, Nov 09 24
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Art For Arts Sake
  Art For Art's Sake   best quiz  
Photo Match
 15 Qns
Match the Art Movements
Here we find five renowned art movements that span different centuries. Match the famous paintings to one of these five movements: Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, Realism, and Cubism. (Some images have been cropped for detail.)
Easier, 15 Qns, trident, Jul 12 24
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Jul 12 24
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  Art in Time   great trivia quiz  
Ordering Quiz
 10 Qns
Place the work of art in the correct art movement. Each work comes from a different art movement, which is placed in chronological order.
Average, 10 Qns, suomy, Sep 22 24
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Sep 22 24
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  Surreal!   great trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Surrealism was a cultural movement in the first half of the 20th century. Match ten outstanding examples of surreal paintings with their creators.
Average, 10 Qns, wellenbrecher, Jul 23 24
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Jul 23 24
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  Cubist!   great trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Cubism was a revolutionary art movement that emerged in the early 20th century, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Many other artists contributed to the movement. Can you match ten famous cubist paintings with their creators?
Average, 10 Qns, wellenbrecher, Jul 24 24
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  Art History of the 19th & 20th Centuries Part I    
Ordering Quiz
 10 Qns
Players will be placing the names of the art periods in order, starting with the earliest movement to have developed and finishing with the most recent.
Difficult, 10 Qns, woodychandler, Sep 15 24
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Sep 15 24
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  Art Movements   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Art moves a lot...let's see if you can keep up with it! From the three artists listed in each question, select the art movement applicable. In other words, to which movement did they belong?
Average, 10 Qns, thejazzkickazz, Jan 15 21
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  The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
As the title suggests this quiz will deal with the Dada movement. It does not, you say. You are correct. In the same way Dada embraced the absurd rebelling against the conventional, the title derives its meaning from its senselessness. Embrace the absurd
Average, 10 Qns, tazman6619, Jul 21 15
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  Miscellaneous: Art Movements   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Enjoy this quiz about some art movements.
Easier, 10 Qns, Lpez, Jun 09 22
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  Styles of Art    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Over the years there have been many different styles of art. Can you match the following artists with the style they used?
Easier, 10 Qns, Serenesh, Nov 11 24
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trivia question Quick Question
As the neoclassical style was declining in the mid 19th century, from what source did the neoclassicism derive new inspiration?

From Quiz "Neoclassicism"




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  Which School Of Art?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I will give you the name of a famous artist. Please give me the name of the school, style or movement he belonged to. Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, vikan, Nov 04 08
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  Ceci n'est pas une pipe!   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The title of this quiz refers to a painting by surrealist artist René Magritte. How many of the following Surrealist artists can you recognize from the descriptions?
Average, 10 Qns, nmerr, Sep 18 14
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  Matching - Artists and their time period/movement    
Multiple Choice
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The title pretty much gives away the subject. Covers mostly the twentieth century.
Average, 10 Qns, specialkarah, Feb 15 11
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  Neoclassicism    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
See how well you know the Neoclassical period of art, which stretched from about mid 18th century until the mid 19th century. Topics include paintings, artists, and buildings.
Tough, 10 Qns, GWU_Boy, Feb 16 09
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  Expressionist Artists    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
In this quiz I give you some information about a well known Expressionist (or pre-Expressionist/post-Expressionist) artist. You give me his name.
Tough, 15 Qns, author, Feb 10 10
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Art Schools and Movements Trivia Questions

1. This Spanish artist is probably one of the most recognizable of all the Surrealists. With his black mustache with the ends turned up in exaggerated points, he is famous for his painting "The Persistence of Memory". Who is he?

From Quiz
Ceci n'est pas une pipe!

Answer: Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Spain in 1904. Like many of the surrealists, Dali was strongly influenced by Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams". His paintings reflect a dream-like quality. Objects are frequently juxtaposed and in many cases objects appear in his paintings that do not connect at all in the real world. In his famous "The Persistence of memory", clocks are melting and the abstract figure in the middle is the face of the dreamer. According to Dali, he himself was that dreamer.

2. What was one objective of Realism?

From Quiz Miscellaneous: Art Movements

Answer: Reproduce nature

Realism intended to paint things just as they were. No embellishment, no interpretation, no emotions or feelings, just reality. However, it did (and does) pay attention to perspective, which must be accurate.

3. Neoclassicism was originally a reaction against the previous generation of artists from what style?

From Quiz Neoclassicism

Answer: rococo

Rococo, itself a reaction to the French classical-baroque style, took one of its earlier forms as the Palace of Versailles in 1700.

4. He was a pre-Expressionist painter. He was born in Løten, Norway in 1863. He died in Ekely near Oslo in 1944. He painted "The Scream" (1893).

From Quiz Expressionist Artists

Answer: Edvard Munch

Munch is by far Norway´s most famous artist. He wrote in his diaries that he wanted to stop "painting interiors and women knitting". Like the Scandinavian writers of his time (Ibsen, Strindberg) he wanted to reach the core of the unmasked man.

5. He was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia in 1890. He was an artist and photographer associated with the Surrealist and Dada movements. He lived for many years in Paris before returning to the U.S. He was better known by what name?

From Quiz Ceci n'est pas une pipe!

Answer: Man Ray

One of Man Ray's more famous paintings is titled "Indestructible Object" in which a metronome is shown with a photo of an eyeball attached to the metronome's pendulum. The painting was created in 1923 and was originally titled "Object To Be Destroyed". It was indeed destroyed in 1957.

6. Where did Impressionism originate?

From Quiz Miscellaneous: Art Movements

Answer: France

Impressionism originated in France, in the second half of the 19th century. Impressionists usually paint landscapes. They are also very concerned with light, how it is reflected and how it acts in our brains.

7. Donatello is from what art historical period?

From Quiz Matching - Artists and their time period/movement

Answer: proto-Renaissance

Donatello is famous for his statue of David, which was the first free-standing nude since antiquity. He also made a figure known as Zuccone ("pumkin-head"), which rests high up on Florence Cathedral.

8. How many eras is neoclassicism generally broken down into?

From Quiz Neoclassicism

Answer: 4

These are Federalist, Rationalist, Idealist and Greek Revival.

9. He was a pre-Expressionist painter. He was born in Paris in 1848 and died in Atuana in the South Pacific in 1903. He painted "Otahi" (1893).

From Quiz Expressionist Artists

Answer: Paul Gauguin

Gauguin broke with Monet´s or Pissarro´s Impressionist style. His concern was "the pictorial organization of a painting with the help of colour forms." He lived and painted in the South Sea (French Polynesia) the last part of his life.

10. Considered now to be one of the most important pieces of Dada art even though it was never formally shown, "Fountain" by artist R. Mutt (1917) was actually the product of which Dada artist known for his readymades?

From Quiz The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Answer: Marcel Duchamp

The piece, a urinal turned on its side and labeled "Fountain", was submitted for display during the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917 at The Grand Central Palace in New York. Because Marcel Duchamp was a board member he submitted the piece, or had it submitted, using the pseudonym R. Mutt so that his ties to the piece would not influence its acceptance. Although all pieces were to be accepted if the artist paid the fee, "Fountain" was rejected by the board as not being art after much debate. This caused Duchamp to resign from the board in protest and led to the "Fountain" being featured in the Dada journal "The Blind Man" as a protest to its exclusion. Although the original was lost, in the 1960s Duchamp commissioned replicas, 17 of which still exist. The "Fountain" is a classic example of Duchamp's use of readymades, ordinary manufactured objects that become art because the artist declares it to be so or because the artist changes it in some way. Other famous Duchamp readymades are "Bottle Rack" (1914), "Prelude to a Broken Arm" (1915), and "50 cc of Paris Air" (1919).

11. What does Surrealism literally mean?

From Quiz Miscellaneous: Art Movements

Answer: Beyond reality

Surrealism can be defined as an artistic style that developed during the 20th century and provided nonrational or unreal imagery. You have to make your imagination work to really understand Surrealism.

12. He was a pre-Expressionist painter. He was born in Groot-Sundert, North Brabant in 1853 and died in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. He painted "Self Portrait with Pipe and Straw Hat" (1888).

From Quiz Expressionist Artists

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

The work of van Gogh is the one of autodidactic originality. He did not allow any compromise with contemporary taste. He once called his style "a little colour music".

13. Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko

From Quiz Art Movements

Answer: Abstract Expressionism

Also known as the New York School, this movement developed in the late 1940s-early 1950s, though the first real Abstract Expressionist was Kandinsky who painted a fully abstract work in 1910.

14. Which German author and poet gave voice to the Dada movement when he created the first Dada Manifesto in 1916? (Not to be confused with the one that came later in 1918.)

From Quiz The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Answer: Hugo Ball

Hugo Ball first read his Dada Manifesto in public at the Cabaret Voltaire on July 14, 1916. It is somewhat ironic that he conveys his ideas with words that the listener can understand all the while decrying the fact that words have no meaning and should not be relied upon. In the same year he released his famous nonsensical poem "Karawane". He is most well-known for his writings "7 schizophrene Sonette" (a poetry collection), "Die Nase des Michelangelo" (a drama), and "Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary" (a memoir of Dada). Interestingly, by 1920 Ball had returned to Catholicism and retired to live a religious life. He even contributed to the Catholic magazine "Hochland" during this time.

15. Known for painting nude women, including her self-portraits, this American painter and sculptor lived to be 101 years old. Married to Max Ernst, himself a Surrealist, who is she?

From Quiz Ceci n'est pas une pipe!

Answer: Dorothea Tanning

With a career spanning sixty years, Dorothea began painting in the Surrealist style early on. Odd images in a dream-like world pervade her art as does the attention to detail that became a hallmark of Surrealism. As she grew older, Dorothea moved away from the Surrealist influence and created her own abstract style. Over the years her style became stranger. "Hotel de Pavot", painted in the early 1970s, is a good example of this. It's hard to describe. However, the details of the hotel room itself are quite impressive.

16. Gustave Courbet, Jean Francois Millet and Honoré Daumier were some of the most famous Realist artists. Which country did they all represent?

From Quiz Miscellaneous: Art Movements

Answer: France

Courbet died in 1877, and he is considered the most important realist. Millet died in 1875 and Daumier in 1879. If you're interested in Realism, you might want to check out some paintings from the above artists like "The Gleaners" by Millet, "Young Women from the Village" by Courbet and "The Third Class Carriage" by Daumier.

17. Which twentieth-century art movement is Henri Matisse most famous for being involved with?

From Quiz Matching - Artists and their time period/movement

Answer: Fauvism

Fauvism comes from a French word meaning "wild beast." The movement's original teacher was Gustave Moreau. Fauvists used bright, vivid colors, usually unnatural, and complementary colors to contrast. Henri Matisse's "The Red Room" was originally blue, before he painted it green, and then finally chose the crimson hue that gave it its name. Another well-known Fauvist is Andre Derain.

18. What 18th century French sculptor created both 'Saint John the Baptist' and 'Saint Bruno' in 1766 and is known for being on the outer fringes of neoclassicism in terms of relating Greco-Roman themes?

From Quiz Neoclassicism

Answer: Jean Antoine Houdon

Some of Houdon's patrons for portraits include Catherine II of Russia (in 1773), Christoph Willibald Gluck (in 1775), Gustav III of Sweden (in 1785), Louis XVI (in 1785), and Napoleon I (in 1806).

19. He was a pre-Expressionist painter. He was born in Delftshaven, Holland in 1877 and died in Monte Carlo in 1968. He painted "Mika - Nude on the Sofa" (1908).

From Quiz Expressionist Artists

Answer: Kees van Dongen

Van Dongen mostly painted nudes. His connection to the Expressionists is the colours. "He organizes the colours in such a way that they make visible the material quality of the depicted objects". (Quote: M.and D.Gerhardus: "Expressionism").

20. Which American artist experimented with Dada early in his career and is known for his use of photograms, as well as being a renowned fashion and portrait photographer later in his career?

From Quiz The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Answer: Man Ray

Man Ray embraced Dada early in his career and became friends with Marcel Duchamp when he was in New York. He too used Duchamp's readymade concept. Some of his most famous readymades are "Gift" (1921), a flatiron with metal tacks attached to the bottom, and "Enigma of Isidore Ducasse" (1920), a sewing machine wrapped in cloth with a cord tied around it. Ray also developed special photographic techniques that were influenced by Dada as seen in his 1918 version of "Rope Dancer". Ray moved to Paris in 1921 and there was a much sought after photographer. James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Kiki de Montparnasse all posed for him among many others. During this time his works were featured in the first Surrealist exhibition in Paris. Ray also experimented with photograms, which he called 'rayographs'. This technique is also called cameraless photography, and involves placing objects on light sensitive material and then exposing it to light. This produces a negative effect which can be anywhere from white to shades of grey, depending on the transparency of the object, on a black background.

21. While not considered to be an artist, I include this French Surrealist poet and writer because he is one of the founders of and driving force behind the Surrealist movement. In his 1924 "Manifeste du surréalisme", he defines Surrealism. Who is he?

From Quiz Ceci n'est pas une pipe!

Answer: André Breton

Breton studied the works of Sigmund Freud as a medical student and was fascinated by the elements of the unconscious mind. The Surrealist movement, which began in the 1920s with the city of Paris as its hub, stemmed from Dadaism and took art in a different direction. Breton authored three Surrealist Manifestos, the third having never been released. In his manifestos he states that "Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern." (Wikipedia)

22. What painting by Jacques Louis David glorifies a martyr of the French Revolution and employs chiaroscuro to portray the aftermath of the man's assassination?

From Quiz Neoclassicism

Answer: 'The Death of Marat'

Jean Paul Marat, who was assassinated in 1793 by a Girondist supporter of the French Revolution, was partly responsible for the prison massacres in September 1792.

23. He was a pre-Expressionist painter. He was born in Ostend in 1860 and died the same place in 1949. He painted "Still Life with Blue Jug" (1890-91).

From Quiz Expressionist Artists

Answer: James Ensor

Ensor is known for his still-lifes (1890-91) and for his pictures of deformed and scary-looking people, such as "Entry of Christ into Brussels" (1888) and "Strange Masks" (1892). His connection to the Expressionists is his concern with colours. He searched for the pure colour tones.

24. What is the name of the movement that uses dots of different colors?

From Quiz Miscellaneous: Art Movements

Answer: Pointillism

Some of the important artists from this movement include Seurat, Cross and Signac. Pointillism originated in late 1880's, when Georges Seurat started developing this technique. "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", one of his most famous works, took him two years to paint! Can you imagine that?

25. The sudden popularity of the neoclassical style was due to new discoveries, travels, and publications in the field of archeology at sites excavated in what country?

From Quiz Neoclassicism

Answer: Italy

In Italy, Herculaneum was discovered in 1709 and excavated in 1738 while Pompeii was excavated starting from 1738 as well.

26. He was a pre-Expressionist painter. He was born in Chatou in 1880 and died in Chambourcy in 1954. He painted "Coastal Landscape" (1905-06).

From Quiz Expressionist Artists

Answer: André Derain

The simple combination of brilliant colours characterizes Derain´s pictures.

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